Ron Koertge

“Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my…

— Ron Koertge

“You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.”

— Ron Koertge

“Did you know if you look deep, deep, deep into a cat's eyes, there's an alter with three candles ?”

— Ron Koertge

“That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.”

— Ron Koertge

“The air of a deposed prince. falsehood as restorative-if they wouldnt do that if they wouldnt do all that they do. the…

— Ron Koertge

“She knows her life is on the line but, believe it or not, she's never been so excited! Her husband's a serial…

— Ron Koertge

“Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.”

— Ron Koertge

“Our enemy is man with his arrogance and greed. The woodsman in particular. Destroyer of trees. Clearer of land. Owner of fire.…

— Ron Koertge

“Dark night of the soul,” said Jesus, “Happens to everybody sooner or later.”

— Ron Koertge

“All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were…

— Ron Koertge

“She's selling CDs on the corner, fifty cents to any stoner, any homeboy with a boner. Sleet and worse - the weather's…

— Ron Koertge

“Okay, they were ogre children with little gray teeth, but they were kids! They didn't do anything, not really. Sure, when they…

— Ron Koertge

“No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending…

— Ron Koertge

“You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.”

— Ron Koertge

“With his iPod all the way up, nothing in this world can touch him. Just over his pulse is a fresh tattoo-…

— Ron Koertge

“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little…

— Ron Koertge

“Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she's thinking about a safe room, something she's only…

— Ron Koertge

“OMG. He's a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He's the path/through the dark woods,…

— Ron Koertge

“Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.”

— Ron Koertge

“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to…

— Ron Koertge

“The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to…

— Ron Koertge

“Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the…

— Ron Koertge

“I won her over the same way I hunted - loping after the fawn I wanted to eat, never in a hurry,…

— Ron Koertge